Recently added articles from The Arkansas Historical Quarterly:
On the Extreme Frontier: Crafting the Western Arkansas Boundary
Apr 01, 2008; Everett, Derek R ... FOR MANY IN NORTH AMERICA, the term "border town" conjures up images of places like El Paso-Juarez, San Diego-Tijuana, Detroit-Windsor, or the twin Niagara Falls. But such locales exist within as well as between countries. Perched on the invisible line separating Arkansas and Oklahoma stand two ...
President's Report to the Membership, 2008
Apr 01, 2008; DeBlack, Thomas A ... 2007 MARKED THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY of the crisis at Little Rock Central High School, and there were several conferences dedicated to that momentous episode. One of the most significant and best attended was the annual meeting of the Arkansas Historical Association, held April 26-28 in Little ...
Effiegene Wingo: An Early Congresswoman from Arkansas
Apr 01, 2008; Shedd, Lindley C ... EFFIEGENE WINGO WAS ELECTED TO CONGRESS in 1930, the second of four women Arkansas has sent to the U.S. House of Representatives. Arkansas is not unusual in this dearth of female representation. Even today, women compose less than 17 percent of Congress. Twenty-seven states have, through their ...
Rags to Respectability: Arkansas and Booker T. Washington
Apr 01, 2008; Recken, Stephen L ... WHEN BOOKER T. WASHINGTON CAME TO LITTLE ROCK in October 1913 to formally open the impressive Mosaic Templars building, the Arkansas Democrat, a local white paper, told its readers, "Head of the Negro Race in Little Rock Today to Officiate at Dedication." Washington's presence on this august ...
Arkansas Listings in the National Register of Historic Places
Apr 01, 2008; Hope, Holly ... The Mixed Masonry Designs of Silas Owens SIMPLE ROCK STRUCTURES ARE ACCEPTED FEATURES of the Arkansas landscape, primarily in the northwestern, northeastern, and western sections of the state. The Ozark and Ouachita Mountains, upper Delta region, and Arkansas River Valley yielded veins ...
The Missouri Compromise and Its Aftermath: Slavery and the Meaning of America
Apr 01, 2008; Byron, Matthew A ... The Missouri Compromise and Its Aftermath: Slavery and the Meaning of America. By Robert Pierce Forbes. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. Pp. vi, 369. Introduction, epilogue, acknowledgments, index. $34.95.) Arkansas Territory was born in the midst of congressional ...
From the Archives
Apr 01, 2008; Simpson, Ethel C ... A History of Special Collections at the University of Arkansas Libraries SPECIAL COLLECTIONS, HOME OF THE MANUSCRIPTS and archives department and the Arkansas print collection at the University of Arkansas Libraries in Fayetteville, observed its fortieth anniversary on October 25, 2007, ...
Little Rock on Trial: Cooper v. Aaron and School Desegregation
Apr 01, 2008; Stebenne, David L ... Little Rock on Trial: Cooper v. Aaron and School Desegregation. By Tony A. Freyer. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. Pp. xii, 276. Editor's preface, acknowledgments, introduction, epilogue, chronology, bibliographic essay, index. $35.00, cloth; $17.95, paper.) Tony Freyer's ...
The Cherokee Nation in the Civil War
Apr 01, 2008; Parins, James W ... The Cherokee Nation in the Civil War. By Clarissa W. Confer. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 199. Acknowledgments, illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95.) The first military action of the Civil War in Indian Territory was against a band of "loyal" ...
Jo Shelby's Iron Brigade
Apr 01, 2008; Porter, Scott A ... Jo Shelby's Iron Brigade. By Deryl P. Sellmeyer. (Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing, 2007. Pp. 381. Preface, acknowledgments, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.) Considering his significance in the trans-Mississippi during the Civil War, a historically correct account of Brig. Gen. Joseph ...
The Road to Disunion, Volume II: Secessionists Triumphant, 1854-1861
Apr 01, 2008; Woods, James M ... The Road to Disunion, Volume II: Secessionists Triumphant, 1854-1861. By William W. Freehling. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp.vii, 605. Preface, text, maps, illustrations, endnotes, index. $35.00.) This is the second volume of William W. Freehling's magnum opus, a survey of ...
The Weight of Their Votes: Southern Women and Political Leverage in the 1920s
Apr 01, 2008; Parry, Janine A ... The Weight of Their Votes: Southern Women and Political Leverage in the 1920s. By Lorraine Gates Schuyler. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 336. Acknowledgments, illustrations, maps, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $59.95, cloth; $22.50, ...
Little to Eat and Thin Mud to Drink: Letters, Diaries, and Memoirs from the Red River Campaigns, 1863-1864
Apr 01, 2008; Dollar, Susan ... Little to Eat and Thin Mud to Drink: Letters, Diaries, and Memoirs from the Red River Campaigns, 1863-1864. Edited by Gary D. Joiner. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2007. Pp. xxix, 342. Foreword by Peter S. Carmichael, acknowledgments, general editor's note, illustrations, maps, ...
Lum and Abner: Rural America and the Golden Age of Radio
Apr 01, 2008; Blevins, Brooks ... Lum and Abner: Rural America and the Golden Age of Radio. By Randal L. Hall. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2007. Pp. ix, 255. Acknowledgments, introduction, note on scripts, notes, illustrations, scripts. $40.00.) Almost a decade into the twenty-first century, an ever-growing ...
Book and Media Notes
Apr 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Charles Robinson's essay '"Most Shamefully Common': Arkansas and Miscegenation," which appeared in the Autumn 2001 AHQ, included a brief discussion of the 1884 marriage of Isaac Bankston, the white sheriff of Desha County, to an African-American woman, Missouri Bradford. Robinson has ...
News and Notices
Apr 01, 2008; Anonymous ... The Arkansas Historical Association (AHA) will hold its sixty-seventh annual conference at the Best Western Inn of the Ozarks in Eureka Springs, March 27-29, 2008. The conference theme will be "Land of Eccentricity." The program chair is Timothy G. Nutt, rare books and manuscripts librarian with ...